Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Peace Was Made, sentence 109
The King said, "Go now to Reynaud and say to him, 'The King gives you peace on these conditions.
Who acts: King · What happens: say, go, give · To what, where: Reynaud, King, peace, you, conditions · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How Peace Was Made. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 King | det |
| 2 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 said | nsubj |
| 3 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 Go | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 Go | punct |
| 6 | Go | go | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 3 said | ccomp |
| 7 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 Go | advmod |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 Reynaud | case |
| 9 | Reynaud | Reynaud | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Go | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 say | cc |
| 11 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 6 Go | conj |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 him | case |
| 13 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 say | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 gives | punct |
| 15 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 18 gives | punct |
| 16 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 King | det |
| 17 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 gives | nsubj |
| 18 | gives | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 say | parataxis |
| 19 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 18 gives | iobj |
| 20 | peace | peace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 gives | obj |
| 21 | on | on | ADP | _ | 23 conditions | case |
| 22 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 23 conditions | det |
| 23 | conditions | condition | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 peace | nmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the King | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | go in a quote | infinitive | Reynaud | now | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to reynaud=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert in a quote | infinitive | King | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient | |||||
| 4 | give in a quote | present | the King | peace | you | this conditions | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent you=Recipient peace=Theme on condition=Asset |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, Project Gutenberg book 75339 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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